The Importance of Digital Branding for Private Aviation

Digital branding will make the difference between private aviation brands that transition gracefully into the 21st century, and those that fall by the wayside.

There’s a generational gap in consumer behavior surrounding luxury brands at the moment. Millennials Generation Z doesn’t buy based on brand loyalty, and no private aviation brand has mastered an approach to bringing them on board yet.

Millennial consumers like to see:

Eco-conscious brands that have a larger mission than the product they deliver

Digital-savvy brands that know how to create personalized offerings, experiences, and messages

An interactive brand with human faces through new digital media

Experience-driven services rather than a traditional luxury product

Let’s explore each of these in detail.

Content Marketing Through Podcasts and Blogs: Branding Through Hosting

Podcasts may be one of the biggest sources of untapped potential for luxury brands of all time. Many people tell entrepreneurs they should build their brand around their personality, whether that’s highly organized and professional, or a little bit edgy and humorous. There are numerous suggestions from endless voices on how to do this. However, the easiest way for a brand to reflect your personality is to host a podcast or appear as a guest.

It’s fun to listen to passionate people speak. When you get an opportunity to talk about private aviation and the vision for your company, you’ll naturally attract an audience.

Thanks to digital promotional tools, you’ll be able to target “look-alike” audiences for podcast consumers who like:

Luxury car talk (easy to sell them on talking about luxury planes)

Aviation topics of all kinds, for both consumers and potential personnel

Gear of all kinds. Many people love to talk and hear about the latest gear

Luxury flight is like a luxury hotel or resort, in many ways

Hosting a podcast, by its very nature, lets you be hospitable, knowledgeable, and confident. It gives your brand not just a voice, but a whole conversation that can be used to build community within your own company, and with your larger audience. Podcast audiences don’t just talk back to the host, they talk to each other. Developing a digital community with this medium could well be one of the most powerful opportunities available on the market today.

Green Branding: The Importance of Eco-Consciousness for Private Aviation

Consumer surveys have revealed that Millennials will choose a brand with an eco-conscious dimension over those that do not. This is incredibly important for digital branding because:

You can’t compete on prices in a luxury space

You need a different set of USPs

Millennials are a blank slate when it comes to brand loyalty

Digital technology lets you “skip the line” when it comes to reaching people with your brand. This is important for smaller scale brands in particular

You can choose any element that works with this. Maybe it’s your sustainable water system on board. Maybe it’s your new green-tech jet available for booking. You can offer to donate a portion of prices to environmental protection or technological research if a consumer asks for it. Knowing it’s a priority for these target demographics gives you information to work with, and branding USPs that have nothing to do with prices.

Personalization: A Key Part of Branding a Luxury Experience

Digital tools make personalization easier than it has ever been in the past. You can track where customers are in your funnel in detail, and craft custom offerings and messaging to persuade people and move them where you want them to be. This lets you deliver Millennial and Gen. Z flyers the type of personalized messaging they like to see.

Experiential Marketing: Understanding Brand Preferences Among Up and Coming Generations

If you pay attention to travel-oriented brands that exploded in the digital space, you will notice their marketing is oriented around experiences rather than products. Build out the experience of flying with your brand, and envision it from start to finish. Think about how people arrive at the airport, and what the first thing they see is when they board the plane.

Beyond that, podcasts are far easier to consume than blog articles. People can enjoy them during commutes, chores, yard-work, dishes and even those long commercial flights when someone may discover a certain thought emerges: “hmm, it might be nice to fly private.”

Bring Your Private Aviation Brand into the Digital Age

Offland Media is a team of aviators, marketers, influencers, and videographers. We help private aviation entities of all kinds bring their branding and digital efforts to the next level. Contact us online or call us to learn more.